IV. Certain Obfervations drawn from that Syf tem. V. Probable Conjectures of the Nature and Ufes of the feveral Celestial Bodies, contained in the fame System. VI. Important Principles of Natural Religion, demonstrated from the foregoing certain Obfervations. VII. Important Principles of Divine Revelation confirmed from the foregoing probable Conjec tures. VIII. Such Inferences, fhewn to be the common IX. A Recapitulation of the whole; with a large Mind neceffary for the Discovery of Divine In the fame Year 1717, I improved fome Hints I had preserved ever fince I was a Member of the University of Cambridge, and in particular when I was Fellow of Clareball there, under the Titles of Emendanda in Academia; & Emendanda in Collegio, and prefented them to feveral of my Friends, who were were most likely to have it in their Power to promote a Reformation. Thofe about the College I have not preferv'd, and fo can fay no more concerning them. But the others were preferv'd, and very well received by my Friends: The Emendations were agreed to be in general very right and good; while yet none of them put forward towards the Reduction of them into Practice. They have been already fet down pag. 31,34. In August, this Year 1717, I drew up a very fmall Paper, containing a Sketch of my Reasons for that Opinion I had long embrac'd, and intimated to the World, against the Eternity of Hell-Torments, in my Reafon and Philofophy no Enemies to Faith; which was a Branch of my Sermons and Effays, published A.D. 1609. p. 219, 220, 221. See alfo before, p. 145. But fince I vaftly enlarged those Reasons, and publish'd a diftinct Pamphlet upon that Subject afterward, of which Mention will be made in due Place hereafter, I fay no more about it in this Place. Only that Dr. Lee, in his excellent Expofition of the Seven Vifions of Efdras, which I read over more than once, in Manufcript, long ago, and which are now in Mr. Law's Hands, is clearly of the fame Opinion; and blames our later Divines for their Rashness in that Matter. About this Year 1717, I was defired by a learn ́ed Frenchman, Monf. La Rock, to draw him up, myfelf, fuch an Epitome of my New Theory of the Earth, as he might tranflate and infert into his French Bibliotheque Angloife; which at his Defire I did accordingly. This Epitome is the IVth Article of of the fecond Part of his third Tome for 1718. pag.410, 441. It is alfo added as an Appendix to the fifth Edition of my New Theory, in English. About the fame Year 1717, it was that I perufed that admirable Book of Monf. Renaudot's, ftyled Liturgiarum Orientalium Collectio, 4to, 2 Vol. Price 30 s. Printed at Paris, 1716. The Extracts that I made out of it are published in my Primitive Eucharift Reviv'd. In this Year 1717, I published my Scripture Politicks, or An Impartial Account of the Origin and Measures of Government, Ecclefiaftical and Civil, taken out of the Books of the Old and New Teftament, with a Poftfcript relating to the Report of the Committee of Convocation about the Bishop of Bangor's Prefervative, and Sermon before King George I. To which is fubjoined The Suppofal, or New Scheme of Government, first published A. D. 1712, as above mentioned, pag. 203. and now reprinted, 8vo. Price 2 s. In the Year 1718, I republished the Account of my Profecution and Banishment from the University of Cambridge. This was at firft added at the End of my Hiftorical Preface, 1711; but was at this Time reprinted, on Occafion of Dr. Bentley's Profecution, Sufpenfion, and Deprivation of his Degree, at Cambridge, which it was hoped might have occafioned a Review of mine, as well as his Cenfures, by a fuperior Authority; but all in vain. With an Appendix, containing a farther Account of my Cafe; and particularly my Petition to the ViceChancellor and Heads of Colleges, after they had chofen chofen a new Profeffor, for a third Part of the Salary; which the Statutes of my Foundation fairly permitted, if not required, (which Statutes are exhibited at large) but which was denyed me. ver before printed. 8vo. Price 6 d. Ne This Year 1718 alfo, I carefully revised, improved, and published, a fmall Pamphlet, which was originally written by my own Brother, Mr. Daniel Whifton, as has been already noted, pag. 13. Its Title was this: A Primitive Catechifm, by way of Question and Anfwer. In two Parts. The one for the Catechumens, the other for the Illuminates. Ufeful for Charity-Schools. With the Texts proper for the Proof of the feveral Anfwers. And Note, that as the prefent Edition was a little defective in the Account of the Eucharist or Lord's Supper, it must be hereafter fupplied from my own improved Copy, pag. 97, 98; and the Pages after 56 are to be corrected. N. B. It is this Primitive Catechifm upon the Want of the Doctrine of the Apostles, which I éver make Use of for the Instruction before Bap-` tifm, in fuch as have not yet been baptized; and before Confirmation and Communion to thofe that have only been baptized, but not confirmed; (for I have never ventured to rebaptize any.) Accordingly, when I, about feven Years ago, fupported a Charity School of ro Boys and 10 Girls, by my own and fome Friends Contributions, for two Years and an half, I went, at least one Day every Week, to hear them repeat, and explain to them the Epi tome Epitome of this Primitive Catechifm, which is at the End, and to use the Collects out of our Liturgy, which were appointed for their Morning and Evening Worship. Other Catechifms inftruct Children in the Doctrines and Duties of that Party that compofed them; but this inftructs them in the Doctrines and Duties of Primitive Christianity, without Regard to any Party whatsoever, being all taken out of the Bible, or the Apoftolical Constitutions. Nor is there, that I know of, any Party of Men now among Chriftians, excepting the Socinians, but what agree to almost every thing in that Catechifm. In the next Year, 1719, I publifhed A Letter of Thanks to the Bishop of London, [Robinfon] for his late Letter to his Clergy, against the Ufe of New Forms of Doxology, 8vo. Price 4d. N. B. The Groffness of Bishop Robinson's Ignorance in the old Doxologies, tempted me to do a Thing here that I never did before, nor fince; I mean expofing him in a Way of Banter or Ridicule, and fo cutting him with great Sharpness: Which, tho' he highly deferved, yet was it perhaps, a little unfit for me to do; as fays Terence; Dignus ille contumeliis eft vel maxime: Indignus tu qui faceres tamen. However, I defire this Letter may fill be published as it was written, with this additional Defence, which I made for myself, when the late Queen blamed me for what I had done, viz. When the Bishop will beg St. Paul's and St. Peter's, &c. Pardon, [for calling their Doxologies New and He |